Sentences with phrase «idea of justice»

The best hero stories show the protagonist going through a moral struggle and suffering personal consequences, and while I understand Death Wish is not a superhero movie, director Roth and writer Joe Carnahan basically position Kersey as a superhero enacting out his own idea of justice in the least subtle way possible.

When we say something like «God loves each of us the same» we are promoting our own ideas of justice as complete equity.

Substitutionary atonement, where one suffers in place of others and clears them by bearing the penalty that they deserve, is in view of modern ideas of justice to the individual an immoral outrage.

When I spoke to him on April 20, 2012, the whole idea of justice and... Read More»

I have needed men and women to walk with me as I move on this made - up idea of the justice alphabet, they are the ones who have created bridges for me to cross, space for me to grow in real and meaningful ways.

Or, in the case of John Rawls, they are behind a pre-social «veil of ignorance» making deals with one another according to their calculated self - interest and thus bringing «society,» with its key idea of justice, into being.

Tinder, by contrast, has a narrower view of the function of a prophetic stance, and although it is arguably correct for our present American cultural and political circumstances, his making it central to all Christian politics leads him to some harsh criticism of theological ideas of justice that have arisen in other situations.

That's a far cry from religious dictates that often present a god whose idea of justice is eternal torture for those who aren't in the club..

Nothing seems to contradict more the popular idea of justice than this teaching of Jesus on forgiveness.

The God of the Bible is free and dangerous, offending our human sense of propriety and our human ideas of justice both negatively and positively.

But Tinder's is not the historic Christian idea of justice.

This understanding of agape as regard carries to his understanding of justice which finds equalitarian ideas of justice overlapping with agape.

Wakanda is a place, but in Coogler's view it's also a state of mind, an idealized transnational black consciousness where competing ideas of justice, solidarity, and militancy play out.

But this time the straight - arrow cop (Keanu Reeves) is a dark knight — a vengeful lone wolf who will do anything to bring the bad guys to his own personal idea of justice, whatever the cost.

It also acts as a send - up to the curator's armchair ideas of justice and equality.

That's a twisted, distorted idea of justice.

Some radical ideas that came to me on a Saturday morning: (1) States Parties: set up a Global Justice Research Fund to support a well directed and sustained quest for multidisciplinary knowledge about the core idea of a justice component and how it can be achieved: what are the components of justice connected to atrocities, what is connected with what, what tools can be developed to measure and learn, and how can we make better use of technology.

Every state has some sort of system in place to collect child support from a so - called «dead beat» parent, and these systems should be made use of instead of a custodial parent's foggy idea of justice.

We are so focused on the invisible hand of the market, we'd forgotten about this idea of justice and this moral dimension of markets.

It also forms the idea of justice; through our empathy for other humans, we seek to mete out punishment to wrongdoers on the same level of seriousness as the crimes they have committed.

As a pastor, a blogger, a speaker and having a small but growing reputation as someone that loves justice and advocates on issues of justice, I realised on a personal basis that I had grown more in love with the idea of justice than actually living justly.

Abandoning the idea of justice in the name of charity, imagining that love somehow abolishes truth, leaves charity meaningless and ineffective.

Everyone's ideas of justice are on a spectrum, but I'd sum of my own in the fewest words by saying to follow the concept of the Golden Rule, which most Christians love to preach but don't follow.

Under such influences as these, the social mass lost its indiscriminateness and the constituent persons emerged into clarity and importance, until the ideas of justice associated with the old social solidarity became intolerable.

The ecumenical movement articulated as social middle axiom the idea of free society, the idea of responsible society, and the idea of just, participatory, and sustainable society, and then the idea of justice, peace and integrity of creation throughout its recent history.

Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist — in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless — I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality — namely my idea of justice — was full of sense.

... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own.

The break up of this traditional integration has been a conspicuous aspect of the modern awakening of people to the ideas of justice and freedom and rationality, the foundations of a secular framework.

The mistake is to suppose that ideas of justice can be derived from the jungle.

In the second place, this anonymous book says, that this slaughter was done by the express command of God: but all our ideas of the justice and goodness of God give the lie to the book, and as I never will believe any book that ascribes cruelty and injustice to God, I therefore reject the Bible as unworthy of credit.

All our ideas of the justice and goodness of God revolt at the impious cruelty of the Bible.

The problem is that society's and the NHL's ideas of justice are two different things.

The first volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, Andrew Rawnsley's own story of New Labour, The End of the Party, David Willetts's critique of the baby boomer generation, The Pinch, and Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice shared third place.

«Dan would never do something like Eric did with Al Sharpton and say that he will have an annex for Sharpton's idea of justice.

How we form those beliefs is based on an idea of justice, a consideration of how particular actions affect others.

We discussed the fact that that YTTs need to talk about these ideas of justice, body - acceptance and plurality FIRST.

Police Chief Chang's (Vithaya Pansringarm) idea of justice is to lock Billy in a room with the deceased's father for him to retaliate on Billy by beating him to death.

Also concerned with the idea of justice in education systems, Harrison is researching African American males in his home state of California where, he explains, they are 3.3 times more likely than all other students to be suspended from school.

Lesson 5 focusses specifically on the idea of Justice and Fate

Finally, implicit in the idea of justice is that education is about ensuring that historical injustices are addressed, such as a historical lack of access to quality education faced by poor and marginalized students.